vilasman

Don't get me wrong. Using live search to find and get around traffic as long as you are in a city covered by live search is great.

And I can total see using a small screen for GPS or turn by turn directions.
But sense I am currently without a GPS I tried to use my 4700 and my mda to find a route around the toll boths on i-95 this evening.
Yes you can scroll and zoom and zoom and scroll, in to read street names out to figure out where a given road goes and joins with another road so on so forth, but in the end....
I will have my trusty tabloid sized National Geographic Road Atlas with me. Noting like being able to spread a state map across a resturant table, and see I am here and .... there's where I want to be... and ah ha! that's the quickest, or best road, or these roads will get me around the accident or the blizzard closed road or whatever might be in the way.
I know about all the what if's and I know my map wont be accurate as of 5 mins ago, probably not even 5 years ago. But I can see it without; zoom in, zoom out, scroll scroll.

Has anybody tried using a 5" screen device as a map. Not as a GPS screen but as a map.
"Why would anyone do that when you can have GPS?" Good question. But my question still stands.

GPS has saved me plenty of times. From ringing alarms when it was time to make a turn or when I had failed to make a turn I should have, to me being places even locally that I didnt know how to get back home, to those times when you pull off the road to go ... and you dont remember how to get back so you follow your cookie crumbs, to countless other adventures in the dead of night where the only illumination in the car was the cool blue glow of it's screen.
But I still want a map.
I'm better now :)

jdigitL

works great as a map, so long as youre not driving :)

i use tomtom or iguidance heavily when traveling. wouldnt go back to a "traditional" map after using dynamic directions. its amazing.

jd